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Katie Carson

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Position

Katie Carson is a specialist banking and finance partner with 20 years of local and international experience in New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

Katie’s experience covers a broad range of institutional and corporate finance, structured arrangements (including securitisation programmes), debt capital markets, trade finance, debt restructuring, and finance portfolio acquisition transactions. She is also regularly involved in product development projects and regulatory issues such as the Personal Property Securities Act 1999, consumer credit laws, financial adviser regulation, and anti-money laundering legislation. She has a particular interest in the developing area of fintech innovation.

Katie is a well-respected lawyer who has advised lenders, borrowers and trustees. She combines technical excellence with a responsive and practical approach to dealing with complex or strategic issues.

Career

Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand, 2000

Member

New Zealand Law Society

Education

B.A. Hons., Jurisprudence, University of Oxford 1997

New Zealand

Banking and finance

DLA Piper New Zealand's finance, projects and restructuring practice is 'excellent - its industry knowledge and understanding of market trends mean that its advice is cutting edge, practical and smart'.Â Practice headÂ Katie CarsonÂ has 20 years of experience in domestic and international transactions and frequently acts forÂ Westpac New Zealand, ASB Bank, Heartland Bank, TSB Bank and Foodstuffs North Island. Her advice is 'always tailored for practical use', according to one client. Her recent highlights include advising Barclays Bank on the local law aspects of the â‚¬325m secured financing of Swissport International's acquisition of aviation services provider Aerocare, and assisting Stantec Incorporated with local matters arising from its $1bn credit agreement with a syndicate of lenders for the acquisition of MWH Global. Newly promoted partnerÂ Michael Thompson,Â who joined in early 2018 fromÂ MinterEllisonRuddWatts, added extensive experience in corporate, leveraged and development finance to the practice.

â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹The Tax Working Group has released its Interim Report on the Future of Tax. Amongst a number of other matters, the Interim Report describes two alternative methods for the implementation of a capital gains tax in New Zealand, which will be the subject of further consideration over the coming months.Â

Last week, the UK Court of Appeal released its much-anticipated judgment in ENRC v SFO[1], a decision with significant implications for the scope of legal professional privilege in the context of regulatory investigations.

Following several years of negotiations, and after the high-profile collapse of the original Trans-Pacific Partnership ( TPP ) in 2017, the renamed â€śComprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnershipâ€ť ( CPTPP ) has now met the required number of ratifications to come into force. This is due to occur on 30 December 2018. This will offer New Zealand businesses a range of opportunities they should plan for, including reduced tariffs on a number of key exports.â€‹

The Government has introduced further amendments to the Overseas Investment Regulations 2005 (the Regulations ) to ensure New Zealand complies with its obligations under the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (the CPTPP Agreement ) and various other international agreements New Zealand is a party to.

The Overseas Investment Amendment Bill (the Bill) was passed yesterday after its third and final reading. It is likely to receive Royal assent this month. Once that occurs, the provisions of the Bill that limit the ability of overseas persons to purchase residential property in New Zealand and the changes in the regime governing overseas investments in forestry will officially become part of the Overseas Investment Act (the Act).

â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹The Overseas Investment Amendment Bill (the Bill) was passed yesterday after its third and final reading. It is likely to receive Royal assent this month. Once that occurs, the provisions of the Bill that limit the ability of overseas persons to purchase residential property in New Zealand and the changes in the regime governing overseas investments in forestry will officially become part of the Overseas Investment Act (the Act).